[26] See Locke, Of Education, §§ 81, 184, etc.
[27] 'La seule leçon de morale qui convienne à l'enfance, et la plus importante à tout âge, est de ne jamais faire de mal à personne,' etc. Emile, bk. ii. 'Never trouble yourself about these faults in them, which you know age will cure. And therefore want of well-fashioned civility in the carriage ... should be the parents' least care while they are young. If his tender mind be filled with a veneration for his parents and teachers, which consists in love and esteem and a fear to offend them; and with respect and good-will to all people; that respect will of itself teach these ways of expressing it, which he observes most acceptable,' etc.—Locke, Of Education, §§ 63, 67, etc.
[28] 'Vous donnez la science, à la bonne heure; moi je m'occupe de l'instrument propre à l'acquérir,' etc.—Emile.
[29] ii. 790.
[30] Œuv. de Condorcet, vi. 245.
[31] Œuv. ii. 672.
[32] Œuv. ii. 586, n.
[33] See Martin's Hist. de la France, iii. 422. Or Morison's Life of Saint Bernard, bk. iii. ch. vi.
[34] Les hommes en tout ne s'éclairent que par le tâtonnement de l'expérience. P. 593.
[35] Esprit des Lois, bk. xxiv. ch. ii.